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I assume you've excluded Viney because his longest "bombs" don't travel that far?

So, he'll be a key position forward for day games and an onballer for night games?

That would have meant something completely different in the days of Mopsy Fraser, Carl Ditterich and the other so-called "hard men" of football.

As a matter of interest, are the public kept out of the Casey ground by the club or by the ground manager? There might be good reasons why the ground manager keeps the public out, such as cost, public liability, etc.

That's a description of Paul Chapman. If Tholstrup plays that role as well as Chapman did, I'll be very happy.

This is what happens when social media is banned for people under the age of 16. All of a sudden, adult material appears everywhere. I'm genuinely surprised the autocensor thingy didn't block the second word in Ghosty's post.

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Let's not. Put on your headphones, close your eyes, sit in a comfortable chair and listen to the waves of sound you'll hear in Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto. Glorious. And as a bonus, while you're listening to the slower, second movement, you'll get to hear where Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" came from.

Neither see a Goodwin as the reason to select a better team?

What about Adam Goodes, Buddy Franklin and Lewis Jetta? Did they play together at Sydney?

Well, Demonlanders, now that Picket's taken the bait, do I reel him in or just leave him hanging?

Does the same metric apply to tall forwards?

It was such a coincidence that his first and last games were against Essendon and that our first game after his passing was also against Essendon. It's the sort of fixturing that the AFL tries to contrive today, but it was all the more emotional then precisely because the game had been scheduled long before the tsunami.

Spike Milligan: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States."

Sparrow intrigues me. If he plays the way he has played the last few years, he might not get a game. But was that because he was playing a particular role under Goodwin? Can he show more under a new coaching regime?

Classic Demonland (and Picket Fence) "glass half empty" post. The "glass half full" response would be that if he gets a game in 2026, he's got himself super-fit and improved his skills. Either way, he's got another year to prove himself.

Not much point continuing with the "Gender: Not telling"

Your point? Has Chris Fagan?

We really do need an irony font so people don't misunderstand some posts on here.

The best jumpers in the competition have always been the simplest ones, especially those with a dominant dark colour contrasting with a second, bright colour. The standard Melbourne, Essendon, Richmond and Carlton jumpers are examples. The worst jumpers are those which are too busy with overly stylised motifs, such as West Coast Eagles. And whoever thought that the colour of sunburnt skin contrasting with yellow was a good choice for the Gold Coast Suns should have their design credentials stripped from them.

I don't know why I formed this view, but I had assumed the role was long-term strategy. For example, understanding where the AFL product will be in the longer term, such as (say) in 7-10 years' time. Our club should be making decisions on player retention and selection taking both a short-term and long-term view. The short-term decisions should be the responsibility of King, Lamb, Taylor and Richardson, and equivalent for AFLW. The longer-term decisions should be the province of the Board, CEO and Ned Guy. To make those longer-term decisions, the club needs to understand as best as possible what the competition will look like. What will be the rules of the game? Will it be a 19 or 20 team competition, or something else? What will be the future of Next Generation Academies and the Father/son, father/daughter rules? What will list sizes be? What will happen to the rookie list and other structural issues associated with list sizes? What will the salary cap be? What will be expected with injury management (eg, concussion rules)? And so on. There's a lot there for someone to be working on while not being distracted by the current day-to-day stuff.

I don't like the way some on here insult players by describing them as "spuds" and the like. But if we really had a player called Henson, it would be the one time where I would find it acceptable to call him a muppet.

Why was it the mid-season draft and not the national draft? Was he overlooked in the previous national draft or was he not in that pool of potential draftees for some reason (eg, injury? under age?)

Is it possible there's nothing wrong with Langdon and that he's running with Langford as a pacemaker, or just to keep him company?

Not sure this post stands up to scrutiny. (See what I did there?) The left foot of a right-foot kick takes all the stress of the body as it's planted on the ground during the kick. I would have thought the injury would be at least equally problematic whichever foot it's happened to.